by admin | Dec 13, 2017 | Writing
Over the past few months, I’ve talked about heroes and villains. While they are important, most of us have a pretty good idea of what makes a memorable one, and most writers get there eventually. What fewer get right is the Love Interest. Here, our familiarity with...
by admin | Oct 28, 2017 | American dream, Books, Doomsday, End of the World as we know it, History, Mr Sunshine, politics, publishing
So, this happened. For those of you too lazy to click the link, I’ll provide some background. The s/f cartoon Rick and Morty made a craving for McDonald’s discontinued Szechuan Dipping Sauce into a thing. It was a joke on the show, and as happens so often in geek...
by admin | Oct 28, 2017 | Writing
Specifically, how much detail. How much detail and description you put into your writing is a decision that will profoundly affect the way you story reads. Too little and the world and characters become flat and generic, too much can bog down the whole thing,...
by admin | Oct 28, 2017 | Books, Writing
It’s a difficult thing to write in isolation. For one thing, it’s not easy to find motivation ti write when nobody’s reading what you’ve written. Just having a group pf writers who exchange works on a deadline can help push you to buckle down and be productive. It’s...
by admin | Jul 19, 2017 | Writing
Several of the QM staff were recently on a panel entitled “So You Want to be a Writer,” where we tried the old “scared straight” approach to save aspiring authors from this life. Not sure we did a very good job. Anyway, it made we think about why somebody would choose...
